DoW Alzheimer's Transforming Care Award
Funds clinical research or trials that improve dementia care itself, not drug treatments alone, for people with Alzheimer's and their care partners.
A new drug is not the only thing that could make life better for someone with Alzheimer's or a related dementia, or for the person caring for them. This award funds research into the care itself — how it's delivered, not only what pill comes with it.
Clinical research and clinical trials are both allowed, but a trial that only tests or evaluates a drug doesn't meet what this mechanism is for — th…
Clinical research or clinical trials evaluating dementia-care interventions, innovations or solutions for people with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias and their care partners, excluding trials that solely test pharmacological interventions and excluding animal-model studies, with preliminary data required and community collaboration required for research prospectively enrolling human subjects.
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